As the 2014 campaign begins, one bright spot for House Democrats is their early success raising campaign funds. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $22.6 million in the first three months of this year compared with $17.5 million for its partisan...
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President Barack Obama makes a final get-out-the-vote push for Democratic candidates, Attorney General Dick Blumenthal, running for U.S. Senate, left, and Rep. Jim Himes, D-Ct., right, in Bridgeport, Conn.
DCCC Finance Chair: Winning House ‘Very Daunting’
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General David Petraeus speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for reappointment and commander of the U.S. Forces in Afghanistan in Washington, D.C.
Crowdfunding Site Offers Professor Petraeus as Prize
First it was Mark Sanford running for Congress. Then it was Anthony Weiner floating a New York City mayoral campaign. Now, David Petraeus is putting himself out there post-scandal — as both a university professor and one lucky philanthropist’s work0ut buddy. Former...
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Students celebrate after U.S. President Barack Obama was projected the winner of the presidential election inside the Kennedy Forum at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Nov. 6, 2012.
FEC: 2012 Campaign Cost $7 Billion
Candidates, parties, political action committees and other outside groups spent more than $7 billion on the 2012 election, according to a final tally by the Federal Election Commission. That’s the most ever spent on U.S. elections, and surpasses the $5.3 billion...
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Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., makes notes on some papers as he sits on the Senate steps.
Best-Funded House Members: Top-Ten Hold $25 Million
The House Ways and Means Committee is widely viewed as an A-list panel because of an expansive jurisdiction that includes tax, trade and health policy. Another advantage: committee members can also raise substantial campaign funds from the many companies that...
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New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, shown here speaking prior to a panel on Gun Violence on April 3, 2013 in New York.
New York Takes Steps Toward Disclosure of Nonprofit Donors
Nonprofits that spend millions on political campaigns are attracting increased scrutiny from the federal government, and lawmakers of both parties are looking at legislation to require disclosure. New York state officials on their own are moving toward requring such groups to...
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Obama Campaign Still Owes $3 Million
President Barack Obama’s campaign committee, Obama for America, still owes $3.1 million, new Federal Election Commission filings show. The debts include $626,886 for stage, sound and lighting at campaign events; $500,757 for telemarketing and more than $216,146 for legal fees....
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SEC: More than 500,000 Calls for Corporate Spending Disclosure
The Securities and Exchange Commission has received more than 500,000 comments urging the agency to require publicly traded companies to disclose their donations to trade associations and other nonprofits, which currently do not have to identify who’s giving them the...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, holds his weekly on camera news conference in the Capitol on Thursday, April 11, 2013.
Boehner Raises $2.4 Million First Qtr
As the House speaker, John Boehner is in a position to raise plenty of campaign funds for his party. The Ohio Republican took in $2.4 million in the first three months of this year, his campaign committee reported to the...
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Organizing for Action head Jim Messina.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 109,582
That’s how many people contributed to Organizing for Action, the issue-advocacy group founded by President Barack Obama’s former campaign aides. OFA raised $4.9 million in the first quarter since it was formed in late January, the group said in a...
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, center, arrives for the weekly Republican policy luncheon on the Capitol on April 9, 2013 in Washington, DC.
McConnell Turns Table on ‘Liberal Left:’ Louisville Fundraising Bonanza
There is Hollywood, and then there is Louisville. And Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate from Kentucky who privately discussed ways to “do out” anyone who opposes him for re-election, has turned an audio-taping of that February...
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